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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
SOME OF THE ODD THINGS.
Carried the Money Himself.
San francisco Chronicle.

It was in the days of the early railroad,
when it was ret new; the days when the
journey to New York was less Of jaunt
than it is now; when greenbacks were not
popular here. One summer morning a
man, walking in happy and feverish
haste, with wild excitement beaming all
over his face, stepped into the Office of a
we'll known banker.
York"
"All right What is it?"
The man looked fearfully around him
and then brought out pocket.
tits $4,000 in greenbacks.'
81 guess I can do it. Going East?'
eyes. [ am going tomorrow. 1 don't
want to carry all this with me. Couldn't
do it. Sure to get robbed. So give me
a draft. How much?"
"Oh, seeing it's you, L per cent;
So So
'sIt goes"
So the banker made out draft on New
York and took the money.
"You are going tomorrow, are your.
eyes"
"Would you mind taking a little parcel
for me and handing it to my brother"
"Certainly I'll do it with pleasure"
The banker went into the other room
and presently came back with the parcel.
'Just put it in your valise, and don't
loose it, will your"
"Ill take the best of care of it."
THANK you. Good-by. Pleasant trip"
Arriving in New York, the Californian
went to the address and delivered the
package. Then he presented his draft.
The man opened the package and gave
him the Identical $4,000 in greenbacks
he had in San Francisco. He had carried
them all the way himself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24

Owns and operates nearly $500 miles Of thor
oughy equipped road in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa.
Missouri, Minnesota and Dakota
It is the Best Direct Route be-
tween all principal points in the
Northwest, Southwest and Far
West.
For maps, time tables, rates Of passage and
fr light, etc. apply to the nearest station agent of
the CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL RAILWAY,
Or TO any Railroad Agent anywhere in the
World.
r. MILLER, A. V. H. CARPENTER
General Manager. Gen. Pass. and Tkt. Agt
:. F. TUCKER GEO. Fl. HEAFFORD
Asst Gen. Man Asst Gen Pass. and Tkt. ACT
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24

e@-For notices in reference to Special Excur-
sions, changes of time, and other items of inter-
est ia connection with the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE,
< ST.. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to che local
columns Of this paper
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
BEECHER'S WIDOW.

A Sketch of the Wife Who has Been.so Devoted.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, who stood
at her husbands side SO heroicaIly
through good and evil report, says the
Philadelphia Times, was born at West
Sutton, Worcester county, Mass, in the
year 1912, She was the daughter of a
physician, DR.. Billiard When Mr.. Bee
cher was at Amherst Miss Billiards. broth
er, one of his classmates, invited him to
spend vacation at West Sutton. Then
Miss Billiard and Henry Ward Beecher
met for the first time, the young lady
gagged seven years, not being married un-
til 1887.
Mr.. apd Mrs. Beecher had ten children,
Of whom only four are living, one daugh-
ter and three sons. The daughter, who is
the eldest of the four, is the wife of the
Rev. Samuel Scoville, of Stamford, Conn.
Mr. Beecher's eldest son, Col. Henry Bar
ton Beecher, is a well-known insurance
man in Brooklyn. Maj. WIN. c. Beecher
is lawyer, and the youngest, Herbert
Becker, was appointed collector Of Gus
toms at Portland, Ore, by President
Cleveland in 1885, but a year later the
senate rejected his nomination, after
which he was given another Office in the
Northwestern. His home is at Seattle,
W. L. With the exception of his son
Herbert all of Mr.. Beecher's children were
at his bedside during his last hours.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States and Canada during last
week was lessened 2,260,O62 bushels of
wheat, 49,, 226 bushels of corn, 136,415
bushels of oats, 1894 bushels of rye, and
55.762 bushels of barley.
1t is asserted that 1000 women own an
manage farms in Iowa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
THE STUMP

How to Remove Strunps-It is Easy Enough to
Burn a Stump off. But You Should BurR it
mt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
What is Best TO do with the Small Fruits at
This Season.
Philadelphia Record.

Work among the Strawberries, rasp-
berries and blackberries must begin ear
". The mulch may be removed from
strawberries now, and soon as the frost
is out of the ground bag of superphos-
phate and one of muriate of potash
should be scattered along the rows, and
the hoe used, but in so doing it should be
to only lightly chop in the fertilizer and
not to disturbe the roots, which work also
cleans the ground around the plants.
Fresh. clean mulch may be applied after
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24

Tablets of white paper for pencils.
% pen, all sizes kept
in stock.
We propose to keep all blanks used in Circuit
Court, Justices Court and those of miscella-
aeous character as noted above.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
JOB DEPARTMENT.

We have in this department ecmplete line
of job Material and Type for doing frst-class
job work on short notice and ut the lowest
living prices. We do all kinds Of Pamphlet
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-01
EXECUTIVE CLENrENCY.
Pardons to Conyicts Granted by the Presi


Psrdons to Conyicts Granted by the Presi-
dent.
WAsHINGTOE, June 30.-The President
has acted upon the application for pardon
of a number Of convicted criminals. The
most important case is that of Thomas
Ballard, the notorious counterGeiter who
was sentenced January 2l, 1875, to thirty
years Imprisonment in the Albany peniten-
tiary for engraving and having in his pos
session counterfeit plates, notes, etc. The
President has granted him pardon. In
endorsing the application, he says that the
prisoner was supposed to be one of the
most expert counterieiters in the
country. He has now been
in prison equivalent TO more
than fifteen years allowing deduction he
has secured for good behavior. He has
grown to be an old man, broken down
physically and mentally. His conduct has
been such as to cause mnCh interest to be
felt in his cause by many good citizens and
officials concerned in his conviction. His
wife, who has clung to him with true wO-
mans devotion all these years, ~ d who
has almost worn herself out in her efforts
to support and educate her daughter,
Just now reaching wOmanhOod, pleads
for her erring and penitent
husbands release. There is a universal
belief on the part of those acquainted with
the case that the prisoners reformation is
complete, and that in no circumstance
could this broken down man whose mind
is fast giving way with his body, be 4
menace to society If liberated. ] am of
opinion that in this case law has been
fully vindiCated."
PardOns have also been granted rs fol-
lows. VIM. F. Moore, sentenced May ,,
1884, to years Imprisonment at Detroit
Tor manslaughter, Ben Mercier sentenced
October 10, l-S6, To one years
imprisonment in Kentucky for yio-
lation of the Internal Revenue laws,
Samuel >. Jones, convicted in Arkansas,
October 30, lSS5, sentenced to two years
imprisonment tor cOuntsrieiting, and Eli
NullenS, sentenced in Tennessee January
1T. l~~T, to one year Imprisonment for
violation of internal revenue laws Jacob
Heckle, convicted of bigamy IN Utah.
4 pardon has been refused in the case of
John Irvine, sentenced in Wyoming Feb
ruary Goth, 1879, 10 imprisonment for life
toe mail robbery. In declining to grant
the pardon in this case the President says
he cannot quite bring himself to the point
of pardOning this conviction now. This
seems bad time to pardon such otfenses
when they are quite in vogue and their
commission frequent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-01
INNOCENT As \ BABE.
Schnauhclt Says lie Did Not Threw the
Bomb mt the Haymarl0ri Meeting.

SChnauhclt Says lie Did Not Throw the
Bomb mt the Haymarl0et Meeting.
CHICAGO, June 30. Rudolph Schnau-
belt, the alleged thrower of the bomb at
the Haymarket riot, has addressed letter
to the ArJcicr Zeitmh which is claimed
by them to be authentic
The letter is dated Christiana, Norway,
and reads us follows:
cit is supposed that the man who threw
the bomb, May 18th, 1856, was Rudolph
Schnaubclt The truth is, |, Rudolph
SchnaGbelt attended the meeting on the
Haymarket and witnessed the proceed
ings. | went home before the meeting
was over, and had not the least idea that
the fact Ofmy being there would prove so
fatal to myself But man thinks, and the
blackguardisu Of the police has its own
sway.
"Thc day following the Haymarket
events | went to work, not apprehending
anything wrong My employer brought
me the news that the editors of the .irLejtcr
ZcitUny had been arrested and the paper
SlopptN. btluR one OF JDt lIltSlctS u! lnt
Socialistic Publishing Society, felt oblig-
ed to see what was TO be done, and went
to the Arbcicr Zritmg office. 4 band of
detectives, tlike vandals, were at work in
the composing room destroying the type
and forms, etc They also found material
for the preparation Of bombs namely,
type and stereotypcd plates. My brother,
in-law, NJ. Schwab, was also arrested de.
spite the tact that he was absent from the
meeting at the Haymarket, | thought he
would be let tree under bail, but soon
discovered my mistake.
"Thc next day again went to work,
but soon two blackguarhs invited me TO
the Chief. After questioning me at great
length hey let me go, but nevertheless |
thought it advisable to get out of the way
TOR awhile. l stayed near Chicago until |
was informed that was much sought and
very desirable person They accused me
of having thrown the bomb because the
actual thrOwer of the bomb Could not he
found by the search-hOuuds for want OF
brains and wit. -
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-01
ONE MORE.
THE HOME TEAM DROPS ANOTHER GAMETO
SANDTSKY.
Wretchei Work by Several Members Of the Club
Two Good Men Signed Yesterday, in Nicholson
and Smurthwait-ReportS Of Other
League Games Played Yesterday

Wheeling suffered her third defeat yes
terday afternoon, at the hands of tine best
team in the Ohio League, viz. Sandusky,
after getting good start in the first two
innings. 1t was the same old story which
has become so familiar to our base ball
public lately-hard hitting by both teams
aud miserable errors by the weak members
of the home club. With one run in in
the third and two men ont, little
fly was popped up which Minten grace
fully spread his hands for and-whiCh
hit him square in the chest Five runs
more came in as a result of this beautiful
plar and what was worse, the home team
went To pieces and the visitors scored
almost as they pleased Minten also sue
Ceeded in making tumble of an easy
grounder which cost another score. The
features of the game were Nichols heavy
hitting, "Old Reliable" Jack CrOgan's work
in left, Wrights first base play, and West
lakes catching for the Green Stockings
and Clarke's great pitching and the fine
support given him by Chrisman for the
visitors.
We are glad to be able to state that two
of the holes have been filled by acquisi-
tion of "Parson" Nicholson and Smurth-
waite, of the recently disbanded Steuben-
vile club. Nicholson is too well known
to require any recommendation, he having
earned the reputation of being one of the
heaviest hitters and best tielders in the
League. We congratulate the manage
ment on having secured his services, as
there is hut little doubt that he could have
gone with any other club in the League il
he had not been snapped up by Wheel
ing, OF Smurthwaite it is only neCes-
sary to say that he is first class SHORT
stop, and as base runner has no superior
in the League.
1t is to be hoped that the addition of
these two men will bring about 4 change
in the way things have been going the last
few days, and we look forward TO better
record in the future.
The full score yesterday is as follows
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-01
NOTES.

Clark. Minten and f,lynn were released
last night by the Wheeling management
The engagement of three msn, it was
hoped, would check the tide of defeat en-
countered on the trip, but as game, after
game was lost by their poor work, il be-
came evident that the venture was not
successful and it was necessary to release
them to make room for better material
The men are all pleasant fellows and we
are sorry that they did not do better
work.
Manager English left last night for
Mansfield to attend a special League
meeting, which takes place in that city at
/ p. III. tomorrow. The business to he
transacted Is of a private nature, but il is
probable that the disputed game at Zanes-
willie will he disposed Of ia SOME way.
Next Monday, being Fourth of July,
will not he Ladies Day.
Tickets for the Fourth Of July games
will he on sale at Meder's cigar store to
morrow morning. Persons intending TO
witness the games will confer 4 favor on
the management by purchasing tickets ct
the above named place and so avoid the
rush at the gate The morning game will
be called at 10 o'clock and the afternoon
game at 3:3O. A special feature of the
days amusement will be game Of lacrosse
by the Wheeling Lacrosse Club, which
will take place one hour before the after
noon game Is called. The gates will be
open at a. n. and p. m.
A rumor to the effect that Steubenville
had offered to buy the franchise of the
Kalamazoo Club was current about town
last night
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-01
The ropc Accu.rd of Donhlc Drnlinr.

LONDON, June 3O.--Several of to-day's
papers, following the example set 10y the
IM Man Gdzctc yesterday, accuses the
Vatican of deceit and iickleness in the
matter of sending Mgrs Pcrsico and Gu
aldi in Ireland, IN that the Pope, having
already received Tory statement of the
condition of Ireland ~ the resistors he
lieve, or would like il 10 be, sends a mis-
sion 10 Ireland 10 verify that statement,
rather than 10 cOniute it, and that he has
proved his Insincority by starting, recall
lng and again dIspaiching his cmissarics
IN obedience To his understanding of how
the matter was regarded at the English
Court.
That his Holiness IL anxious 10 obtain
an absolutely truthful statement Of the er-
i-ting condition Of the people of Ireland.
not one Of these papers believes, but with
one accord they declare that he will final
ly have forced upon him the biased report
ot the present state of the Irish Catholics
which the Irish hierarchy are determined
lac shall have.
Mr.. John Barry, member of South Wer-
ford, said in an interview this morning:
81 am unable tO see that anything but
gSOd can come ont OF the investigation. II
there was anything 10 conceal; II the state
ments ~ TO England's treatment Of our
unhappy country made time and time
again 10 the Vatican had been all exagger-
ated; If the rOO0ess cabins and their
squaIid former occupants were not there,
living witnesses Of the Truth of our AS
sertiOns; we might seek t0 eyade
rather than tO invite such thorough in
quirY AZ this one iprOmIses 10 be; but we
court the investigation and will do all In
our power 10 make II exhaustive. The
wealthy Tory land owners have been pow
erfuIly aided by Sir George ErriDgton In
presenting their side Of the case 10 the
Vatican, and they have not hc>itated To
make use Of the bugbear anarchy 10 fright
en- the timid or conservative into their
ranks When, sit, were lrishmen ever
found banded with Anarchists2 In Ameri-
ca, where the irishmen are surely free, II
they are anywhere free 90 choose their
affiliations, do you behold them leagued
with Socialists or hnarchist.r IL IN
matter of record that in the outbreak at
Chicago, Irishmen engaged in the attempt
10 preserve order and 10 restore the author
.y set at defiance, were almost the only
sufferers at the hands OF the mob.
1T il too much TO be believed that the
minds Of the high dignitaries who are about
% visit US cannot be relieved OF the i'm
preston made by the m!sstatements 80 per-
sistently dlnned in their ears, and that
they can fail to be touched by the specta-
Gle which Ireland to-day presents. They
are men, If they are foreigners and strang-
ens to our land and people, and We SEE no
reason, therefore, TO think that they are
destitute OF that feeling Of sympathy with
the unfortunate aud oppressed which God
has freely bestowed on mankind"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-01
4 CAVEOF HORRORS.
Discovery of Sixty skeletons OF
Men WHO Had Been Murdered.

Alleged Discovery of Sixty skeletons Oi
Men WHO Had Been Murdered.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 3O.-The
people of this city are excited over ghast-
Is discovery near COOkville, situated on
what was known many years ago az the
Kentucky Stock Road which at that time
was the principal highway tOr traders he.
tween Kentucky and Georgia or South
Carolina.
Stopping places on the road were few
and far between, and many men returning
after selling their stock never reached
home.
Some years ago a skeleton was found at
the entrance to cave near GOOEvillc, and
few days ago party concluded to eZ-
plare the cave. Back on the mountain
side, about Oue-half mile from one Of the
notorious stopping places on the old road,
the entrance to the cave was found. a
hole something like we'll, going straight
down some thirty five feet, was first passed
through, and then the cave opened into
large caverns, with 4 downward course
under the mountain.
At the bottom of the shaft the party
found human bones, and with a little dig
ging in the dirt that had ?. formulated at
this point unearthed about sixty skeletons
OF men who had been murdered and thrown
down this hole Some skulls were found
with bullet holes through them, Others he
ing mashed with an axe or other instru-
mentS OF that kind
Old citizeus now living in this vicinity
say that the keepers Of these dens would
keep track of the travellers when they
passed through with stock, and on their
return they would be almost certain TO
disappear. There is another cave twenty
miles from COOliville near one of the old
inns, and IN exploration oft will be made
all,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-01
BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT.
Marriage in High Life-Mason City Notes
ExCurSIOn---Hope Mill RrbuIlt.

Marriage i'm High Life Mason City Notes
ExCurslOn---Hope Mill R-bmlt.
Special T,leGrGg to ne FGgtss5,
MASON CITY, w. Va, June 3O.-Hatry
Wiudon, Esq and Miss Dorcas Wilkin-
son were united in marriage in Pomeroy,
Ohio, last evening, Rev. J. c. Oil OF that
city officiating. Both are representatives
of old and prominent families of Mason
county, the bridegroOm's father having
long filled the office OF high sheriff of the
county. The brides parents are families
on Graham Bottom five miles above here
on the line Of the Ohio River Railroad
The happy couple will make Welton. O.,
their future home, the groom being en-
gagged in business at that place.
The HOpe salt furnace a. this place
lighted up yesterday, 1t has arisen php-
nix like from its own ashes Ninety days
since, IL was a smouldering heap of ruins,
having burned to the ground on the oath
OF last March. Mason county would be in
better condition if she had uore of the
enterprise shown by the Hope.
Au exclusion party EQm BERN. twenty
one couple from here visited BleunerhaSset
Island yesterday; il was in charge of John
Farson, Esq, depot agent at this place 4
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

Charles Zink committed suicide by hang
ing, At Massillon, ..
Theodore Hamm's brewery, at St Paul,
Mimi, WAS damaged by fire to the extent
of 81, 900.
f. T. Williams, member of the New York
Stock Exchange, failed. Liabilities esti-
mated at $1,000.
Ruklrd Hurd, druggist, of Cincinnati,
has made an assignment. Assets SO, 900;
liabilities SIS, 600.
At AshevilIe, y. c., Tom King, colored,
shot aud instantly killed his wife. He
claims it was accidental
Hattie Deverc, an inmate OF New York
EOuse OF ill-fIme, was fatally shot by her
lover, Andrew Matson.
At the commencement of Harvard Col
lege. the Senior Class graduated 236 ont Of
25l members, the largest number on
record
Mrs. Mary Ball, the wife Of wealthy
farmer near Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was fined
$3.50 and costs tor cruelty beating a little
colored girl.
Charles VI. Hays, Assistant General
Manager of the Wabash railroad, has been
appointed General Manager to succeed Col
Onel Talmage, deceased.
Thos. O'Connor pleaded guilty in PhiIa-
delphia To indictments Of involuntary man.
slaughter for causing the drowning Of five
persons by upsetting rowboat.
Dr. McGlynn, in an interview, reiter-
ates the statement that the Pope desired
TO have Nuncio AT Washington, and gives
information IN support Of that statement.
AT Chester Park, near this city, David
Evans cmptied load Of shot from a mus
ket into the face and neck Of Jacob Bant.
icy. The wounds are dangerous, but will
probably not prove fatal.
GREENyILLE, Y. C., reports great eI-
ctement in that vicinity. Numbers Of
young men are buying arms and ammuni-
tiOn. Lawless whites are banding with
the negroes and adding 10 the strife.
Wm. Xissane has filed demurrer in
the Circuit Court at San Francisco t1 the
suit Of the Chemical National Bank OF New
York, holding that the action is barred by
the statute Of limitations
Cardinal Gibbons declared DIR. MeGlynr
mistaken in suppOsiBg that the Holy See
has ever expressed any intention Of send
ing a NunciO TO this country, or that any
such intention il entertained.
Mr.. Cyrus ". Field is selling 5000
shares of Manhattan Elevated stock 10 a
syndicate, besides the $50, 900 sold to Jay
Gould. The total amount received from
both transactions Is put at 50, 90, 900.
At a meeting Of the Executive Commit
tee Of the Ohio Republican League, at
Columbus, it was decided to bold State
Convention at Toledo, July %. Other
States will be represented, and a confer
ence held relative to forming a National
League of Republican Clubs.
Major Greene, General Manager Of the
Georgia Railway, caused TO be printed in
Augusta an article deBouncing Col. James
Barrett as poltroon and yillifer, and one
who refuses to give the satisfaction due
from one gentleman to another. Develop
ments are anxiOusly awaited.